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Microsoft Announces The Beta Release Of Their Deep Fish Mobile Browser

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 12:42 PM

Microsoft Deepfish Mobile BrowserHot on the heels of their ZenZui “zooming tile” browser for mobile phones, Microsoft Live Labs just announced the limited-public beta version of their new Deep Fish Mobile Browser. The new mobile browser aims to put a stop to horribly-inaccurate mobile renderings of webpages and brings a desktop browsing experience to your Windows Mobile-based phone.

Deepfish preserves the image of the webpage for accurate display on a mobile device, and allows you to zoom in on interesting parts of the webpage. The unique architecture of Deepfish reduces bandwidth use to speed up load times by displaying only the “user-specified portion of the page, providing much quicker page-load times, as detailed information is only retrieved as needed or in the background.”

Currently available as a first-come-first-serve beta, the software is available for limited download. Both Smartphone and PocketPC versions of Windows Mobile are supported.

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • tom

    Link please!

  • Will Park

    Here’s the link
    http://labs.live.com/deepfish/

    Beta limit had been reached at the time of this article’s publishing

  • OperaNews

    Hi there… have you tried Opera Mini yet? Slack microsoft….

  • Balendu Sharma Dadhich

    The microsoft approach seems to be really innovative, especially for two reasons- 1) the system that saves bandwidth and 2) keeping the design of the webpage intact even on the smaller form factor. Kudos to them.

  • Karthik

    I heard deep fish is a good web browser for mobile

  • John

    Finally a better browser for my smartphone. IE Mobile just wasn’t cutting it, and it’s rediculous that you have to pay for opera. Well, I guess SkyFire is pretty good too. Non the less I can’t wait to try it and by the way, your link doesn’t work for labs.live.com/deepfish it brings a page cannot be found error.